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VP, Integration Director

Overland Park, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Dec 2024

About the role

At MMGY Global, we believe nothing shapes your view of the world like travel. So every day, we share our client’s stories from a perspective that inspires people to see the world differently. Our personalized service and strategy connect media, consumers and influencers across the globe, taking people to new places and changing their view for the better. At MMGY we inspire people to go places.

We have an immediate opening for a VP, Integration Director in our Overland Park, KS office. The VP, Integration Director is an essential role during the transitional period of an MMGY acquisition requiring the manager to oversee operational processes, devise strategies, and ensure company systems support daily business functions. They collaborate with various MMGY departments to ensure all parties are fully informed and the integration process stays on schedule and on budget, and that the acquired personnel are welcomed and fully functional within the MMGY infrastructure. The VP, Integration Director’s role begins during diligence and continues throughout the integration period (including any earnout period).

Duties and Responsibilities

The following is the primary role of the VP, Integration Director:

Due Diligence – Develop an effective rapport with the founder(s), learn business nuances, and plan for integration (including identifying areas of importance, synergy goals and potential challenges).
Immediately post-closing – Work with the founder(s), acquired staff and MMGY staff to quickly implement essential structural changes and assimilate staff within the MMGY culture.
Earnout period – Work with the founder(s) on implementing organizational changes and help founder(s)/regional president plan for succession of founder(s).
Post-Earnout period – Oversee a full hand-off of acquired business oversight to the regional president.

The following are specific duties and responsibilities of the VP, Integration Director:

Plan and lead the integration kickoff meeting so that all functional integration leaders understand their roles and responsibilities during the transition period.
Work with the regional president and human resources in communicating the MMGY vision for the newly acquired leaders and staff so that they understand the integration process and how it will impact them.
Understand how the acquired company manages its clients and where MMGY processes/channels can help to solidify or expand client relationships.
Understand the forecasted financial performance of the acquired business and how it will thrive with MMGY.
In collaboration with MMGY leadership, develop the integration strategy, set integration guiding principles and champion the integration and program management structure to capture the value of the transaction.
Build and manage the integration budget and identify, track and capture synergies.
Understand the priorities, operating needs and responsibilities of the different work streams, and anticipate, plan and solve for cross functional interdependencies.
Communicate goals and objectives of each acquisition to all stakeholders across all levels in the organization, including functional experts, business unit leaders and the global leadership team.
Build out a critical path as well as must haves to pick out the smallest details or risks that could have a major impact on the integration.
Recognize and mitigate risks early, reducing bottlenecks that hold up progress.
Constantly review the integration plans to confirm that they still support the evolving deal model, assumptions and goals of the organization and that the team can quickly pivot when necessary.
Set the tone of the integration, measure employee sentiment regularly and take steps to shift opinion, as needed.
Ensure exit criteria are met and document any handoffs to other leaders at the end of the transition period.
Capture lessons learned and recommendations for future acquisitions.

The VP, Integration Director helps ensure there is:

A Day 1 plan so the integration starts smoothly.
A talent retention strategy to incent key employees to stay on board.
An integration progress tracking and reporting process for all functional integration leaders to follow.
An integration plan for each business function being integrated (i.e., Client management, Operations, In